Marcel Dierkes 💡 @newmarcel@mastodon.cloud

I hate build systems with complex config languages like CMake… but https://mesonbuild.com is super approachable for me. I can really understand why this is popular at the moment.

What an overwhelming WWDC this year. New collection and iPadOS features are my favorites. SwiftUI still has to grow on me… time will tell 😅

The new 3 device limit on Dropbox is really pushing me again into the direction of OneDrive. I'm locked out on my new iPad mini 🤨

My current AppKit source of frustration: Autosave identifiers in Storyboards don't seem to work. 😭

I'm actually glad for Marzipan. AppKit has so many weird corners, storyboard bugs and overlapping concepts (bindings vs. data sources) that I'm happy to write more explict code in UIKit to get things done.

The structopt crate https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt especially makes me love building a command line tool with multiple parameters. But still, it's a lot of macro magic 🔮

I'm still fighting with some Rust conventions and finding the best crates… but jeez, the cargo ecosystem and documentation overall are great!

I'm starting a little iOS tooling project in Rust (my first Rust project) and I'm liking it a lot: cargo, rustup and VS Code are solid.

I never use the macOS migration assistant. I always manually copy Application Support, Preferences and Containers on an app-by-app basis. The rest is in git, Dropbox & iCloud.

Got myself a (greatly discounted) 2018 MacBook Pro this week and so far I'm happy 😎
Setup was quick thanks to Homebrew Cask and my dotfiles git repo.

Notarization works well from the Xcode UI, but the moment you want to handle this from the command line it's mostly trial and error. At least I have a shell script now that handles all commands for me. And this support page by Apple: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution/resolving_common_notarization_issues

My end of the year goal: Adding hardened runtime, app notarization, app sandbox, Sparkle XPC and a launch-at-login helper app to KeepingYouAwake. This is probably the worst dev experience I ever had for a Cocoa app.

Maybe I should start looking for a NAS instead?
Resilio Sync also looks promising: https://www.resilio.com/

I found a hosted Nextcloud provider I can trust to replace Dropbox, but I'm not happy with the macOS client and storage pricing right now. I still feel constrained.

Stardew Valley on the iPad is the ultimate release for me. I hate it on the Switch and gave up fast on the Mac.

The new iPad Pro looks a lot like the original iPad from the side. I always loved this classic design although it only lasted one generation.

It worked using Xcode's UI, but now I need to figure out how `altool` and `stapler` work. I want to notarize from the command line with my Makefile.

App Notarization was faster than uploading this screenshot.

Let's see how fast app notarization for Mac apps works. I'm uploading my first build to Apple.

My next tech adventure: Finding a Dropbox replacement with a lot more extensible storage, accessible from anywhere. Nextcloud? Self-hosting? Encryption? Raspberry Pi? This is uncharted territory for me. I don't even know where to start.